Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

Hello! I just attempted a soft reset, and all my data including email accounts, apps, etc. were all erased! To be clear, this was just holding down the power button, NOTHING MORE.

I have an 8GB MicroSD card installed, but after the soft reset when I check available storage it says Total Storage is 15.73 MB (YES MEGABYTES) and Availalbe is 7.33MB.

Anyone else try and perfrom a soft reset on their Focus?

UPDATE! I just spoke with the AT&T Store and they said they just received a note from Microsoft about MicroSD Cards. Apparently WP7 OS is having an issue recognizing certain brands and will only officially support Microsoft's own SD cards. I uninstalled my card, and now the soft reset issue is gone!

Re: Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

I had the same problem with my Focus today. After I removed the MicroSD and rebooted it, shows the 15MB memoryTotal storage and I can not get it back to normal. With only like 7-10MB of available storage, just about everythign I try to do on this phone fails. I've tried multiple hardware resets and the about, reset your phone doesn't actually do anything. Since all the local stores are out of the Focus, I'm stuck right now unless I can figure out how to get the phone to recognize the full 8GB of memory!?

Re: Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

I'm having the same problem. I bought a Transcend 16GB Class 6. My phone was working fine since the morning and then I noticed WIFI stopped working. I then tried to reboot the phone and it wouldn't boot. I took out the memory card, and the phone reset and I could boot up. Just to test, I put the memory card back in, and the phone stopped booting again. I took the memory card out, and it booted up fine. Without the memory card, my phone is stuck at 15MB as well. I can't seem to get it to be at 8GB again.

Re: Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

Mine was a Trancend 8GB Class 6 from Newegg.com. Once you remove the SD Card, do the FORMAT reset as outline in a different thread (hold down Camera, down volume button, and power) to format the memory. It will then reboot and you'll have the full 8GB back!

Shame about the MicroSD support. I suppose we'll see more in the coming days about this.

Re: Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

Ok guys, I have helped two other people with their phones in the att store today. I had a 16GB class 6, and both others had 8GB class 6 cards. NONE of them were recognized initially. You have to follow the tutorial instructions exactly and then they all worked. You have to manually select FORMAT for the card while it is in the phone. You can only get to this option from the off opsition HARD reset. read my post in the two weeks thread and the tips thread. It will work. We got three of us working today. It takes seconds to fix.

Be VERY deliberate about the format process when you put your new microSDHC card in the phone. Follow the directions on this link.

Re: Samsung Focus - Soft Reset Erases Data?!? UPDATE

All of the corporate stores were sold out of the Focus in my area, so I had to go to an authorized reseller. They didn't really know anything about the phone (apparently I was the first person to buy one at 5pm), but when I mentioned a microSD card for the Focus, they showed me an urgent message from AT&T instructing their sales people to prevent customers from using a microSD card with the phone pending an update from Microsoft due to data corruption.